Ralph Avenue station (BMT Fulton Street Line)

{{For|the station at Ralph Avenue and Fulton Street|Ralph Avenue station (IND Fulton Street Line)}}

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{{Infobox NYCS | type = former

| name = Ralph Avenue

| line = BMT Fulton Street Line

| service_custom = None

| connection =Ralph Avenue Line

| platforms = 2 side platforms

| tracks = 2

| structure = Elevated

| address = Fulton Street & Ralph Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11233

| borough = Brooklyn

| locale = Weeksville, Bedford–Stuyvesant

| coordinates = {{coord|40.678874|N|73.921665|W|display=inline,title}}

| division = BMT

| open_date = {{start date and age|1888|Sept|20}}

| close_date = {{end date and age|1940|05|31}}

| next_topwest = Reid Avenue

| next_east = Saratoga Avenue

| nolegend = yes

| other_name =

| hide_traffic = yes

}}

The Ralph Avenue station was a station on the demolished BMT Fulton Street Line in Brooklyn, New York City. It had 2 tracks and 2 side platforms.{{cite web | url = http://stationreporter.net/fultonel.htm | title = Fulton Street El | publisher = StationReporter.net | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130408045756/http://stationreporter.net/fultonel.htm | archive-date = 2013-04-08 }} It was opened on September 20, 1888, and served by trains of the BMT Fulton Street Line. It also had a connection to the trolley lines of the same name. Ralph Avenue was the easternmost station on the line until it was expanded to Rockaway Avenue on November 16, 1888. Less than a month later Saratoga Avenue would replace Ralph Avenue as the penultimate station on the line. The next stop to the east was Saratoga Avenue. The next stop to the west was Utica Avenue.

In 1936, the Independent Subway System built their own Fulton Street subway and added an underground subway station with the same name.{{cite news |title=Two Subway Links Start Wednesday |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/04/06/archives/two-subway-links-start-wednesday-city-will-begin-operating-fulton.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 6, 1936 |page=23 |access-date=October 7, 2011}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/04/09/archives/new-subway-link-opened-by-mayor-he-tells-15000-in-brooklyn-it-will.html|title=NEW SUBWAY LINK OPENED BY MAYOR; He Tells 15,000 in Brooklyn It Will Be Extended to Queens When Red Tape Is Cut.|date=April 9, 1936|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=August 15, 2016}} The el station became obsolete, and it closed on May 31, 1940.{{Cite news|url = https://www.newspapers.com/image/?spot=2707733|title = Fulton Street 'L' Was Last Word In Progress at '88 opening|date = May 31, 1940|access-date = February 19, 2016|via=Newspapers.com|newspaper = Brooklyn Daily Eagle}}